Volume 2

Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766.
Date:
1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pale water, infomuch that in the night, he commonly ufed to pafs near an Englifth pint every two hours: After getting up, the quantity began to leffen, and continued to diminifh as the day advanced. Notwithftanding the ufe of the bark, conferve of rofes, alom and ‘feveral other medicines, for near a fort- night, this flux of urine increafed, and, almoft as plentifully in the day as in the night, From a fufpicion that this pro- fufe fecretion might arife either from a laxity or weaknefs of the renal veflels, or from. their being affected with an uncommon alternate motion; about two in the afternoon, a broad pofting belt was put about the belly and loins, as tight'as the patient could bear it: And altho’ all that morning, and the day before, he had made, every two hours at leaft, three gills of: urine, almoft as clear as rock-water, yet, after the belt was /